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Gen Z, please talk to me: what management works and what does not? (lemmy.world)

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I am an Xer who manages a small but crucial team at my workplace (in an EU country). I had a lady resign last week, and I have another who may be about to resign or I may have to let go due to low engagement. They are both Gen Z. Today it hit me: the five years I've been managing this department, the only people I've lost have been from Gen Z. Clearly I do not know how to manage Gen Z so that they are happy working here. What can I do? I want them to be as happy as my Millennial team members. One detail that might matter is that my team is spread over three European cities.

Happy to provide any clarification if anyone wants it.

Edit. Thanks for all the answers even if a few of them are difficult to hear (and a few were oddly angry?) This has been very helpful for me, much more so than it probably would have been at the Old Place.

Also the second lady I mentioned who might quit or I might have to let go? She quit the day after I posted this giving a week's notice yesterday. My team is fully supportive, but it's going to be a rough couple of months.

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[-] ZMonster@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

For those co-workers who have boats, you likely don’t have the full picture of their finances.

Yeah yeah yeah, I get it. I mean, I promise it's you who doesn't have the full picture - I live in Alaska, there are no cheap boats up here, there are no cheap houses, there are no cheap hobbies, etc. - you don't qualify for all of those things without the ability make at least the minimum payments. Nevertheless, you missed the point. I didn't have the credit to get a single snow machine or motorcycle, let alone enough of them to also need a toy hauler to tote them around. There is a vast difference between struggling to make rent, and being able to acquire myriad recreational vehicles regardless of how "paper thin you may feel their outward appearing lives are". And the difference in experience and skill was not that much. I had to teach those idiot x genrs how computers work and a few of them still today "don't use email". So I'm just not buying the "evaluation" argument. I know what they brought to the table, because I was the asshole fixing their sloppy ass work.

My god man, you are missing the point. You seem to only see my problems through the lens of your own life, which sounds like it has been mostly affordable. That's my point. You have grown out of touch. Things are not affordable. I'm not talking about fucking jet skis. I'm talking about groceries and rent.

JFC, I had to live out of my occasionally running car for two years and I'm getting boomersplained about perspective. 🙄

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